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History Detectives
1775 Almanac, Exercise Records, Moon Museum
Season 9
Episode 9
In this episode, the notes scrawled in the margins of this 1775 Almanac give us intimate insights into how loyalties strained families during the Revolution. Then a garage sale find ties a woman to the grandfather she never met. Was he the phonograph exercise guru of the 1920s? And did NASA unwittingly smuggle Andy Warhol art to the moon?
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Black Tom Shell; USS Olympia Glass; Front Street Blockhouse

54:07
Hindenburg Artifact; Bonus Army Stamp; Dempsey Fight Bell

54:08
China Marine Jacket; Airstream Caravan; Lincoln Forgery

54:08
Japanese Balloon Bomb; Society Circus Program; Camp David Letter

54:07
Red Hand Flag; Seth Eastman Painting; Isleton Tong

54:07
World War II Diary; 1856 Mormon Tale; Annie Oakley Coin

56:01
Great Mexican War Posters; Nora Holt Autograph Book; Muhlenberg Robe

56:46
Investigating a projection screen with possible Cuban Missile Crisis connections.